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On the morning of 19 April 1995, a massive bomb exploded outside a US government building in Oklahoma City. The blast, which could be heard and felt up to 55 miles away, reduced the building to rubble and killed 168 people, 19 of whom were children. In addition, more than 800 people were injured in the worst domestic attack in American history. Ninety minutes later, a man was arrested for driving a car without a license plate and carrying a gun. His name was Timothy McVeigh. Two days later, he was revealed to be the man behind the bomb outrage. A college drop-out who went on to serve as a US army gunner in the first Gulf War, McVeigh wanted to take revenge on the US government for (or so he believed) treating its citizens with contempt. McVeigh was just one of a growing number of extremists across the USA who felt the same way. But only he would commit such an appalling crime, causing the death of so many innocent people. On 11 June 2001, McVeigh paid the ultimate price when he was executed by lethal injection. He went calmly to his death, never having expressed any regret for what he had done, except for the children who had died. |
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